David5759
18-11-14, 23:22
I've been having what I believe are panic attacks daily, I'd just like to explain my symptoms and the attacks in general and see what you guys think. All symptoms start in my chest and push up along my neck.
Mine are:
-A tidal wave of panic flushing over me
-Fearful of a heart attack/heart stopping
-Heart palpitations
-Heart beating hard and fast (but not racey fast)
-Choking sensation
-Pain in my chest in area of heart
-cold flush on my chest
-cloudy/blurry vision
-bubbly tummy (as in I almost feel I need to go to the loo)
-slow speech, almost slurred
-extreme distraught behaviour! Standing up and running around, usually bolting out the front door, just being completely overwhelmed.
The biggest fear I have during an attack is that my heart will stop. My attacks only seem to occur between 8pm-5am which seriously hampers any kind of sleeping pattern. Big attacks with all symptoms listed occur roughly once a day but I have smaller wave like attacks multiple times an evening.
As far as I can work out there is no pattern or trigger for the big attacks, they can come on if I'm watching a film, talking to someone, sat relaxing thinking about clouds, even drifting off to sleep with nothing at all on my mind. They're crippling me, I can't cope with it every single night.
I had a GP appointment today and my doctor didn't know what to do with me, she spent a good 2 minutes listening to me explain my symptoms and she responded with "it's very common, is there anything that you think might be causing it at the moment?" Which I replied with "Nothing out of the ordinariy, kind of why I'm here today" and she asked me "what would you like me to do for you?". I had to specify that I wanted counciling and she sorted that out for me. She then prescribed my Beta Blockers. But I'm pharmacophobic. So there's no way they would have any positive effect, I would panic over any difference in my heart rate or any other effect given.
I don't know what to do, my stress levels are peaking and my head is so tense over the lack of control.
Mine are:
-A tidal wave of panic flushing over me
-Fearful of a heart attack/heart stopping
-Heart palpitations
-Heart beating hard and fast (but not racey fast)
-Choking sensation
-Pain in my chest in area of heart
-cold flush on my chest
-cloudy/blurry vision
-bubbly tummy (as in I almost feel I need to go to the loo)
-slow speech, almost slurred
-extreme distraught behaviour! Standing up and running around, usually bolting out the front door, just being completely overwhelmed.
The biggest fear I have during an attack is that my heart will stop. My attacks only seem to occur between 8pm-5am which seriously hampers any kind of sleeping pattern. Big attacks with all symptoms listed occur roughly once a day but I have smaller wave like attacks multiple times an evening.
As far as I can work out there is no pattern or trigger for the big attacks, they can come on if I'm watching a film, talking to someone, sat relaxing thinking about clouds, even drifting off to sleep with nothing at all on my mind. They're crippling me, I can't cope with it every single night.
I had a GP appointment today and my doctor didn't know what to do with me, she spent a good 2 minutes listening to me explain my symptoms and she responded with "it's very common, is there anything that you think might be causing it at the moment?" Which I replied with "Nothing out of the ordinariy, kind of why I'm here today" and she asked me "what would you like me to do for you?". I had to specify that I wanted counciling and she sorted that out for me. She then prescribed my Beta Blockers. But I'm pharmacophobic. So there's no way they would have any positive effect, I would panic over any difference in my heart rate or any other effect given.
I don't know what to do, my stress levels are peaking and my head is so tense over the lack of control.